The idea that this franchise, which frankly, is a mess in so many ways right now with the way the books are the players, are who is on the roster, what kind of contracts they have to deal with.

I Why would James Dolan want to put that in the hands of someone who has potentially never done this job before in any way?

I think the one element that it's come back to me a little bit on is is recruiting.

But that's not the model like what recruits players to any free agent destination is having an infrastructure having an organization that is appealing to people.

Look at what, uh, Sean Marks and Kenny Atkinson did in Brooklyn.

Look what Doc Rivers, Lawrence, Frank, Steve Balmer did with the Clippers.

Those weren't free agent destinations until the organizations were run better and even the Lakers before Magic came back and Rob Pelinka came in.

They had struck out on a lot of significant free agents.

They were just getting players our top free agents because of geography, but it has been shown.

If you run your organization well in a big market, you're going to be appealing to all star level players.

And there's still a frustration in this league in the smaller markets.

Them are how well they run the organization.

In the end, they're still feeders to L.

A New York.

You know, Pat Riley has been able to do that in Miami over a long period of time.

So it's not as simple as just having, Ah, a recruiter.

This isn't college basketball, and recruiting doesn't work that way in the n b A.

You better have put that players are smart.

Agents are smart.

They know what they're sending their players into.

Absolutely.

I am very grateful to you for coming on television and trying to explain the unexplainable Tow us.

We will be checking with you back through the afternoon across ESPN and for more trade deadline talk.

You can catch woes and Zach Lowe on the Wogan low trade deadline special that is tomorrow five Eastern on ESPN to those air always great shows.

So, Scotty, you just heard from the man himself.

Where do the next go from here?

given all these tentacles, they seem tohave out and direction That might not make sense to the rest of us.

Well, it doesn't make sense for us, but I think they're gonna continue to struggle for the next year and 1/2 of So I mean, even if they find someone to put him in that position, I don't think they're gonna be able to make a dramatic change real quickly.

There's a lot of teams that are so far down the road right now that the Knicks are going to be playing catch up for the next three years.

They know the value asset when they gave up on poor Zynga's.

So when you put yourself behind the eight ball like that, you need superstars in this league to be successful, and it may be a while before they can find a superstar.

They talk about the Mecca basketball.

Well, not a lot of free agents are running to play in the medical basketball sitting.

If they are, they're playing for the Brooklyn.

That, and that's exactly the model that the Knicks should be looking at.

The Brooklyn next didn't have picks.

They didn't have anything that hired a young coach and a patient GM who came up through the Spurs system.

They built the most incredible facility I've ever seen in my life, and you could have a beautiful view of the Statue of Liberty better view than from Madison Square Garden.

And so all everything that Jim Dolan said turned out to be true for the Brooklyn Nets, not his own franchise.

None of this.

None of this makes sense, except when you say, but it's coming from Gen.

Dylan.

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